Dono wrote:Our stay at Letaba was great. R30 per day for a box of utensils, and it had all we needed. The pool was beautiful and clean, unlike Berg en Dal a week later, the camp was beautiful and green, and the bottomless coffee was great. Letaba is still in my opinion one of the nicest ,quietest camps in the park. It's great seeing the scorpions that live in the cracks in the trees.

Dono, I am pleased to hear that you had such a good stay. I have also learned something new about the utensils for hire. It is good to know that.

The bird doesn't sing because it has answers, it sings because it has a song.

Still lots of streams of water in the Letaba river, and downstream towards the Engelhard Dam, which is full. We were there from 17 until the morning of 20 October 2016, and had lots of beautiful sightings of general game and birds. It was raining softly on the morning of the 19th, and when we left on the 20th, it was still overcast. Definitely worthwhile to visit Letaba! Enjoy!

Sightings weren't great - as others have said around the river and dam a fair amount of general game and fairly good bird sightings. Once you are out of the green belt though, the viewing is sparse. We could see the horizon through the Mopane bush! To give an idea of how dry areas are!

Many of the trees are beginning to get leaves, but there is very little grass anywhere.

The campsite is shaded, but very dry!

It is well worth taking a UV torch with to find scorpions. Letaba has the best concentration. Especially in the palms.

We made quite a complicated booking at Letaba in August for three nights this year because we had the SA branch of our family joining us for various numbers of nights. Our main party was 9.

We booked Melville (which sleeps 9) for the two nights that it was available and moved on to Fish Eagle (which sleeps 8 ) for the remaining night. (Our guests were in BD3Us and had departed for our last night). This meant our party of 9 from Melville would have to split up for the final night , with 2 going into a BD3U.

While we were helping the younger family members move into Fish Eagle, we met the camp manager who was doing a final inspection. We commented on what spectacular guesthouse Fish Eagle is and what a pity it only slept 8 while our family was 9. Immediately, he offered to bring a mattress with bedding for the youngest child, meaning we could all enjoy the house with its own bird hide